The social network today are a widespread media, because they are available for all, or better they are available for all users that want have an easy and userfriendly media, kind, fascinating, I should use the word coy, the ease whereby it’s possible access to social network can provide too much security and suggest that there aren’t imminent dangerous.
Not just about privacy and some settings unorthodox that some social network have included in their manage policies, we talk about account security. I have yet written some article about some frauds that by now will already be well at ease in the social network, but the security pass goes beyond the simple fraud or phishing.
When you use a social network is necessary must be careful not only ourselves but also at the security of our friends. The first settings of privacy about that we can or can’t viewed to other are good and it’s necessary have an eye also for our friendship.
If using common e-mail the lamer and cracker intent is that to infect the first computer and take possession and then maybe infect even wheel also acquaintances, friends, kin and colleagues, into the classic web the intent is similar to the e-mail but the attempt is to infect only those that occur on the infect website, instead in the social network the intent is to infect more computers in the exactly same moment, to have more information as possible and of more people as possible in the short time.
The lamer usually use a very simple method and that seems absolutely harmless: the word of mouth that there is in automatic in social network; trusting that just accepted all account connected at the first will be automatically infected, deceived soon as there is a connection to the social network platform.
This kind of viral infection usually are hidden into not common application that allowing the attacker once that the user click on “allow” (at the not common application to access at your personal data and at their friends) that’s it, run a script that not only access to your information and those of your friends, but hack passing through the servers of the social networks and fetches e-mail address, password input, plus you can sometimes find applications that install rootkits or other type of infection to all contacts simultaneously sending a signal of approval.
Another possibility to take an infection is to happen in a bogus group, created as a decoy in order to benefit of data acquired or user’s computer.
The use of chat messangers within social networks is very dangerous and unsafe, use yahoo, msn, and all common messaging chat services within the social network can create problems, because if some hacker networked messaging can also use the services of social networks even without your knowledge and can use your account for personal social network.
When you join a social network is necessary to pay attention to everything you do, not only to what they say, is very easy to fall into group bogus and are not always able to easily identify the scams that are all 'internal social network. Have many friends and put little attention to what you do and say in the social networking poses difficulties in all your friendships.
When you access a new applications starting do not know well or suspected to be an application or a bogus group, use the security settings provided by many social networks and allow only you can access personal information and your friends, in some social network that is not enough that you may still be infected in any case.
If you are unsure of the application where you enter, you agree not to enter, lock, however, prevented the administration to report it if you're not 100% sure that it is a malicious code verifications (which you should enter strongly discouraged) try to remain as safe as possible and avoid trouble with your friends, if you really love the danger eliminated at least your friends from your account.
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pubblicato il 12/05/2010